Building high traffic websites with Drupal

The slides for my talk at World Hosting Days 2014 in Rust, Germany.
An overview of technologies you should use to boost Drupal performance.

Transcript

1. freistil IT Building high- traffic websites with Drupal Markus Heurung
2. Markus Heurung @muhh Drupal Developer, Linux Sysadmin, Trainer, IT Manager Co-Founder of freistil IT
3. What’s high traffic? anonymous vs. authenticated static vs. generated
4. Overview of layers to optimise Browser Webserver PHP Filesystem Drupal Database
5. Static files Browser Apache Filesystem
6. Tuning Linux Fast disks File system cache File system layout
7. Tuning Apache MaxClients & Co. KeepAlive Scaling out new complexities: network filesystem deployment
8. Drupal Browser Apache File System MySQL PHP
9. Tuning PHP Get many CPU cores Use an opcode cache (APC) Check apc.php 128-256 MB
10. Drupal Database for almost everything. Content Configuration Content queries and layout Caches Watchdog (logs)
11. Configure Drupal Compression CSS & JS aggregation Caching Watchdog into syslog into logstash
12. Choose your modules wisely!
13. Optimise your database queries generated by views
14. Tuning MySQL Disk I/O InnoDB Buffers (caches, temp tables)
15. use less DB
16. Caching ↓ memcached
17. Search and content collections ↓ Apache Solr
18. Content ↓ MongoDB
19. Browser Apache File System PHP - Drupal MySQL memcached Solr MongoDB APC
20. Varnish
21. Goal Varnish Apache Browser
22. Drupal configuration
23. Tuning Varnish Modules: 
 Purge, Expire, Rules
 Varnish Optimise VCL logic
24. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlykv/5061421858
25. monitor & measure measure your settings monitor your usage apply insights to your setup rinse & repeat
26. Thanks! Questions? ! markus@freistil.it